Indian Medical Association Telangana State unit Ad-hoc chairman Prof. A Gopal Kishan has stated that Second Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad granted interim injunction restraining the erstwhile IMA AP State branch from conducting elections for office-bearers of Telangana State IMA and passed a stay on the conduct of elections. IMA AP was getting ready to conduct elections to IMA Telangana unit in Vijayawada, pursuant to it’s notification dated May 30, 2014 and that forced the IMA Telangana unit to revolt asking what was the need to issue notification 2 days before Telangana State comes into existence. Telangana unit alleged that AP unit wanted to retain control over the Telangana chapter and so planned the election under it’s watch, that too in Vijayawada. In a press note yesterday, ...

Fissures have started to appear in the State unit of Indian Medical Association (IMA), the representative voluntary organisation of doctors. The body was split wide open when on Sunday, several senior doctors hailing from Telangana held a meeting at the IMA building in Koti and formed an adhoc committee that will formalise the future course of action and formation of IMA, Telangana. sWhile this being the case, the office-bearers of the State-unit (parent body) of IMA on Sunday maintained that the meeting was ‘illegal’ and Central IMA observed elections to form separate bodies of IMA Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are scheduled to be held on July 12 in Vijayawada. Senior nephrologist Dr. A. Gopal Kishan is the Chairman of the ...